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B.S. Management

The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that weekly incomes change with the education a professional receives (depending on the position and geographic area). An average salary for completing some college is $39,312 annually ($756 weekly), an associate’s degree yields $42,588 ($819) and a bachelor’s degree is $60,112 ($1,156).

Designed for professionals that need a bachelor’s degree for career-relevant skills, career advancement, a change in career direction, a salary increase or promotion opportunities.
/ UW-Stout

UW-Stout's Bachelor of Science in Management degree completion program is designed for place-bound professionals that need a bachelor’s degree for career advancement. This program embraces collaboration between UW Colleges and the Wisconsin Technical College System, offering you:

Online delivery of all courses

Transfer-friendly degree

Opportunity to earn credits for work experience

Opportunity to build on your education and add additional experience through an optional stretch internship with your current employer

Option to earn credit using national standardized tests (CLEP and Dante) that test mastery of college-level material

Applied industry experience infused into the program

Preparation for management and leadership challenges within mid-level career positions

Study aboard option used towards degree requirements

Option to participate in blended coursework (online learning paired with a face-to-face class that is held on a Friday and Saturday during your first and last semesters in the program)

Choose a Concentration to Meet Your Goals

You choose your pace to progress through the program. You can start fall, spring or summer session. You can take one or several classes per term, and you can choose if you want to add summer or WinTerm classes.

Why Complete Your Bachelor’s Degree?

Deciding to complete your degree is difficult. It often weighs on your mind as something you have always dreamt of achieving. Maybe you earned credits long ago when you didn’t know what you wanted, or life situations got in the way. Maybe it’s a been a few years, and you realize it’s time to get that degree finished as it matters for you, and or you would be a good role model for your children.

UW-Stout's online Bachelor of Science degree in Management is a business-accredited degree for adults with an associate degree, transfer credits or professional work experience. Your transfer credits won’t expire, and students transfer in an average of 65 credits.

The opportunity for advancement, a promotion, or change in direction with your career is what comes with completing your BS in Management from UW-Stout. It’s time to take your life, hopes and dreams by the reins and further your career.

Read the following quote from Michelle H. from Reedsburg, WI, who is pursuing her Bachelor of Science in Management with a Human Resource Management concentration.

I am “too” much to go back to school. This is what I told myself for years. I’m “too”:

Busy: I have a full-time job. I’m a wife and mother. I volunteer at my daughters’ schools, at my church, and sing in the community choir. I’m a cook, maid, and chauffeur.

Old: My brain can’t handle learning anything that isn’t necessary. If I put more in, I’ll have to take something out, right?

Tired: How am I supposed to live my already chaotic life and add one more thing?

Then one day I realized I was right. I am “too” much. I’m “too”:

Intelligent: Why am I missing opportunities at work when I am just as smart as everyone else, but I’m just missing my degree to back it up?

Motivated: I like to win at Monopoly, cribbage – I should be winning at life as well! Going back to school is a win, not only for me but for my employer and my family.

Worth It: I deserve to further my education and prove to my daughters that it is never too late to pursue a dream.

Completing Your Degree Online

UW-Stout provides you the opportunity to grow professionally and advance into mid-management. With an emphasis on applying what you learn, you will challenge yourself by examining business situations, integrating theories and practices, expanding your ethical framework, and negotiating with team members on strategies to maximum team/group performance.

Throughout the program, you will use your ability to formulate leadership management decisions and demonstrate the ability to explain social, legal and global influences in the world today advancing your business.

Advantages associated with the BS in Management program:

Increase your salary potential

Prepare yourself for career advancement and be ready for a career transition

Take online courses to achieve balance with your work-life schedule

Network with other professionals

Degree completion built on previously completed technical education program or significant work experience

It’s about hands-on learning to solve real-world problems paired with career-relevant skills that will get you promoted.

You get to design your education around your busy life. It is up to you.

The Bachelor of Science in Management degree at UW-Stout is a degree completion program for people who already have associate degrees and professional work experience. Students who transfer from an accredited two- or four-year college can apply earned credits to the program. University regulations require that all students complete a minimum of 32 credits from UW-Stout.

Your degree will consist of four areas: general education, management core, your chosen concentration, and a technical emphasis area.

Once enrolled in the BS in Management program, you’ll begin working with a Learning Adviser/Program Director to move you ahead in the program. During your first term, you will take INMGT 100: Introduction to Online Management Program, where you will be planning out your academic schedule leading to your graduation.

On average students coming in with 60-70 credits finish the BS in Management program within two to three years (but you can take longer if that’s what fits best into your busy life).

Your technical emphasis consists of the knowledge, skills and abilities you bring with you to the program. Most students have their technical emphasis area satisfied with transfer credits, and there are several ways to earn credits for your technical emphasis area if it is not satisfied with transfer credits.

Credits for Work Experience

The BS in Management program offers credits for prior work experience through completion of a portfolio. A portfolio cohort experience is offered twice a year for a six-week term utilizing badges to mark progress. Once seven badges are completed you would earn the number of predetermined credits discussed with the Program Director prior to starting the process. The seven badges areas include: Resume, Professional Goals, Work Skills and Competencies, Educational Accomplishments, Autobiography, Life/Work, and Training Artifacts.

Optional Internships

Within the BS in Management Program is the opportunity to complete an optional internship. The internship process involves a stretch assignment with your current employer that embraces implementation of your learning while advancing your profile in your organization. The internship course is designed for you to scope out a project, work with a mentor in the organization, or dive into a topic and apply what you’ve learned. The final outcome is to develop a video or present your project to a group within your workplace. You could use this experience to strengthen your LinkedIn profile.

National Standardized Testing

College Level Examination Program (CLEP) and DANTES Subject Standardized Test (DSST, or Dantes) test your mastery of college-level material through national standardized tests. You will earn college credit if your test score reflects a solid level of KSAs for the subject chosen.

Library access at all UW schools with a edicatedd library contact at UW-Stout specific to distance learning students

Veteran’s services

Disability Services

Registration & Records support

Scholarship opportunities

Tools to help you determine transferability if you continue to take courses elsewhere

Online tutoring service with extended hours

Career Services

Career conferences

Program Ambassadors

The BS in Management program has an online learning community that provides the ongoing human touches of peer coaches organized by concentrations that share glimpse of the life a non-traditional student. They also exchange professional resources, stimulate discussions on relevant current events, and promote student success stories along the path to graduation.

Students who are attending another institution, but are planning to receive their degree from UW-Stout, may be eligible to receive aid from UW‐Stout. In these cases, UW‐Stout is considered the Home Institution and the other campus is considered the Visiting Institution.